by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Aug 20, 2023 | Jenin Younes, Opinion
In July of 2021, Meta’s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, emailed a Facebook vice president in charge of content policy, asking why the company had removed from Facebook, rather than demoted or flagged, claims that COVID-19 was “man-made.” Rice responded, “Because...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Aug 16, 2023 | Press Releases
Washington, DC (August 16, 2023) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a brief calling on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to strike down SEC’s lifetime speech ban against its client, Christopher Novinger, in SEC v. Novinger and ICAN...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Aug 15, 2023 | John J. Vecchione, Opinion
Whether or not the federal government and its myriad agencies will be able to coerce, cajole, encourage, threaten, and browbeat social media companies into removing views it does not like from their platforms was the question before the Fifth Circuit Court of...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Aug 10, 2023 | Greg Dolin, Opinion, Philip Hamburger
A disturbing constitutional drama is unfolding in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Chief Judge Kimberly Moore has effectively deprived one of her colleagues, Judge Pauline Newman, of her judicial office. Although not as noisy as recent attacks on the...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Aug 7, 2023 | Press Releases
Washington, DC (August 7, 2023) – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) administers the Universal Service Fund (USF), which provides telecommunications services to rural and impoverished areas of the United States as well as to schools, libraries, and healthcare...
